OpenAI will provide the Ukrainian government with access to the Daybreak program to support the cybersecurity of civilian infrastructure. In cooperation with the Ministry of Digital Transformation, Ukrainian teams will gain access to tools for identifying software vulnerabilities, as well as developing and testing fixes.
OpenAI announced this on September 23. The project was presented on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly by Dmytro Kushneruk, Consul General of Ukraine in San Francisco, and Sasha Baker, OpenAI’s Vice President of National Security Policy.
Daybreak gives cybersecurity professionals access to artificial intelligence tools for authorized security work. They can be used to assess legacy software, investigate suspicious activity, validate vulnerabilities and test fixes.
OpenAI said Ukrainian teams will use these tools to protect civilian infrastructure. In 2025, Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team CERT-UA handled nearly 6,000 cyber incidents. The targets included hospital systems, the energy sector and telecommunications.
Ukraine has become one of the European countries whose cybersecurity professionals have already been given access to OpenAI’s cyber models. Previously, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) used the models to identify vulnerabilities in software used by EU institutions. All of the vulnerabilities identified were subsequently fixed.
In Poland, the national cybersecurity agency CERT Polska used OpenAI models to identify six vulnerabilities in software for routers from a third-party manufacturer. The vendor released fixes that, according to CERT Polska, prevent the identified attacks.
OpenAI describes Daybreak as a program for professionals who use AI to identify and remediate cyber vulnerabilities as part of authorized security work.
